Bauyrzhan Momyshuly(variation of last name spelling: Momysh-uly) (Kazakh Bauyrzhan Momyshly; 1910 - 1982) - participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Panfilovite, participant in the Battle of Moscow, writer.

Biography

Born on December 11 (December 24), 1910 in a peasant (dekhan) family (now Zhualynsky district, Zhambyl region, Kazakhstan). Kazakh.

In 1929 he graduated from 9 classes. He worked as a teacher, economist at the Industrial Bank, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the district, chief of the district police, instructor at the Alma-Ata city military registration and enlistment office of the Kazakh SSR, and district prosecutor.

In the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army from November 1932 to 1934 and from 1936, he began as an ordinary Red Army soldier.

In 1933 he graduated from the regimental school and artillery military school, and became an artillery officer.

He served in the Far East under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union V.K. Blucher, in July-August 1938 he participated in battles with the Japanese Kwantung Army at Lake Khasan as the commander of an artillery battery.

In 1939-1940 he served in Ukraine, took part in campaigns in the Carpathians and the annexation of Bessarabia.

In 1940 he returned to Kazakhstan and worked as a senior instructor at the Kazvoenkomat.

In the battles of the Great Patriotic War from September 1941, as part of the 316th Infantry Division under the command of Major General I.V. Panfilov.

Member of the CPSU(b) since 1942.

As battalion commander of the 1073rd Talgar Rifle Regiment of the 316th Rifle Division (since November 1941 - 8th Guards Rifle Division, 16th Army, Western Front), Senior Lieutenant Momysh-uly participated in 27 battles during the defense of Moscow.

During the second general offensive of the Wehrmacht on Moscow from November 16 to 18, 1941, the battalion of senior lieutenant Bauyrzhan Momysh-uly, separated from the division, heroically fought on the Volokolamsk highway near the village of Matryonino.

The skillful leadership of the battalion commander made it possible to delay the Germans at this line for 3 days. After which Senior Lieutenant Momyshuly brought the battalion out of the encirclement combat-ready.

The heroic combat path of the battalion under the command of Bauyrzhan Momysh-uly is described in the art-historical book by Alexander Bek “Volokolamsk Highway”.

B. Momysh-uly spent a month at the front as a battalion commander, after which he was promoted ahead of schedule to a command position - to commander of his own regiment, while remaining in the rank of senior lieutenant.

Later, as the commander of the 19th Guards Rifle Regiment, on November 26-30, 1941, Guard Senior Lieutenant Momysh-uly in the area of ​​the village of Sokolovo, Moscow Region, together with his regiment, fought stubborn battles for four days, successfully repelling enemy attacks. On December 5, 1941, B. Momysh-uly was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield.

During the battle in the village of Dubrovka, Moscow region, he was again seriously wounded.

In the battles for the station and the village of Kryukovo, B. Momysh-uly commanded a regiment that was in the center of the battle formation of the 8th Guards Division and fought stubborn battles from November 31 to December 7, 1941. On December 5, 1941, in these battles B. Momysh-uly was wounded and, knowing that there was nowhere to retreat further and that there was a small number of people left in the regiment, he refused to leave the battlefield and continued to lead it until December 7, 1941. December 8, 1941, together with other units division, the regiment launched a counteroffensive.

In January-April 1942, the 8th Guards Rifle Division and the 9th Guards Rifle Division, whose commander B. Momysh-uly was subsequently appointed, fought with the SS division “Totenkopf” (Totenkopf) and participated in the Demyansk operation (“ Demyansk Cauldron"). Soon B. Momysh-uly was awarded the rank of guard colonel, and an order was issued for his appointment as division commander.

In 1944, B. Momysh-uly completed advanced training courses for officers at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

From January 28 to May 9, 1945, Guard Colonel Bauyrzhan Momysh-uly commanded the 9th Guards Rifle Division of the 2nd Guards Rifle Corps of the 6th Guards Army of the 2nd Baltic Front.

M Omysh-uly Baurdzhan - battalion commander and commander of the 1073rd (from November 1941 - 19th Guards) rifle regiment of the 316th, from November 1941 - 8th Guards Red Banner Rifle Division of the 16th Army of the Western Front.

Born on December 24, 1910 (January 6, 1911) in the village of Urak-Balva, now the Dzhuvalinsky district of the Dzhambul region of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in a peasant family. Kazakh. In 1929 he graduated from 9 classes. He worked as an economist at an industrial bank, secretary of the district executive committee, head of the district police, and instructor at the Alma-Ata city military registration and enlistment office of the Kazakh SSR.

In the Red Army from 1932 to 1934 and from 1936. In 1933 he graduated from the regimental school.

In the battles of the Great Patriotic War from September 1941, as part of the legendary division under the command of Major General I.V. Panfilov. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1942.

As a battalion commander of the 1073rd Rifle Regiment (316th, from November 1941 - 8th Guards Rifle Division, 16th Army, Western Front), senior lieutenant Momysh-uly participated in 27 battles during the defense of Moscow.

During the second general offensive of the Wehrmacht on Moscow from November 16 to 18, 1941, the battalion of senior lieutenant Momysh-uly, separated from the division, heroically fought on the Volokolamsk highway near the village of Matronino. The skillful leadership of the battalion commander made it possible to delay the Nazis at this point for 3 days. After which senior lieutenant Momysh-uly led the battalion out of the encirclement combat-ready.

As the commander of the 19th Guards Rifle Regiment, on November 26-30, 1941, Guard Captain Momysh-uly in the area of ​​the village of Sokolovo, Moscow Region, together with his regiment, fought stubborn battles for four days, successfully repelling enemy attacks. On December 5, 1941, B. Momysh-uly was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield. During the battle in the village of Dubrovka, Moscow Region, he was again seriously wounded and was in the hospital until March 1944. In the same year he graduated from the Officer Improvement Course at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Since January 21, 1945, Guard Colonel Baurdzhan Momysh-uly commanded the 9th Guards Rifle Division of the 2nd Guards Rifle Corps of the 6th Guards Army of the 2nd Baltic Front. In February - March 1945, northwest of the Priekule station (Lithuania), units of the division skillfully led by him broke through three lines of heavily fortified enemy defenses. As a result of the division's offensive, 15 settlements were liberated and significant damage was inflicted on the enemy in manpower and military equipment.

Z and for the courage and heroism shown in the battle of Moscow, Captain Baurdzhan Momysh-uly in 1942 was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but it was awarded to him only on December 11, 1990 posthumously...

After the war, the brave officer continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1948 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since 1950 - senior lecturer at the Military Academy of Logistics and Supply of the Soviet Army. Since December 1955, Colonel Momysh-uly has been in reserve. Lived in the city of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). Member of the USSR Writers' Union. Died on June 10, 1982. He was buried at the Kensai cemetery in Almaty.

Awarded the Order of Lenin (December 11, 1990, posthumously), 2 Orders of the Red Banner (06/6/1942; ...), Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (06/6/1945), Red Banner of Labor (01/15/1971), Friendship of Peoples ( 12/23/1980), Red Star (...), “Badge of Honor” (01/3/1959), medals.

In Kazakhstan, streets are named after the Hero in the cities of Almaty, Dzhambul, Guryev (now Aterau), in the village of Assa, Dzhambul region; sports complex in the regional center of Burnoe, Dzhambul region; secondary schools in the cities of Almaty (No. 131), Dzhambul (No. 44), Shymkent (No. 42); Military boarding school in Almaty; state farm in Dzhuvalinsky district. The monument to Baurdzhan Momysh-uly was erected in front of the school building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Shymkent city).

I recently shot a business portrait of a very successful young woman. Top manager of a representative office of a leading American company in Russia. And during communication (and taking a portrait is always communication) - it turned out that she graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University (the one that in the USSR was “named after Patrice Lumumba”).

“And how do you like studying with foreigners?” I asked. In the days of my youth there were many Latin Americans, Arabs, blacks...

Great. But with Dagestanis, Ingush, and Chechens it’s difficult. “They generally despise Russians,” the lady answered.

I twitched slightly at these words. The brain gave a slight xenophobic reaction...
Instantly a thought flashed in the style of “they came down from the mountains - and so do I...to the university!”
And at that very moment a quote from a book I had recently read popped up.

FIRST "MATCH":

“...There are too many people in Russia who grew up without the slightest idea of ​​who Abu Ali Ibn Sina is. Or Bauyrzhan Momyshuly. Or Hasan Mamedbagir oglu Abdullayev. Or Nizami Ganjavi. For Russians, they and their fellow tribesmen are simply strangers: an object of ridicule, an object of contempt. Great doctor. A great warrior. Great physicist. Great poet. Who cares if he has different facial features?”

I felt so ashamed that I had a fever... But this is not said about me!!! I know who Ibn Sina is. Who is Hasan Abdullayev? I know very well who Nizami Ganjavi is, I can list his best poems. And... And here - stop. And who is “The Great Warrior Bauyrzhan Momyshuly”?!

Don't know. Nothing responds...

I started looking. And immediately the links led to the book “Volokolamsk Highway” by Beck. Yes, I read it. At school. According to the extracurricular reading program. I don't remember anything. Opened it. And I couldn’t close it... Hour after hour. Without looking up.
The Panfilov division was formed in Alma-Ata. And a third consisted of Kazakhs. Bauyrzhan was the battalion commander in this division.

He brilliantly carried out the tactics of combat with small forces against a many times superior enemy, which later received the name “Momyshuly’s spiral.”

B. Momyshuly: “I call it a spiral because all our battles during the defense of Moscow are characterized by the fact that we cut the path, jumped to the side and carried the enemy along with us, taking him ten kilometers away, then with a jerk we stood in his path again, and they left again. With such maneuvers, the enemy’s forces are dispersed, and our units again enter the highway. This, in the true sense of the word, exhausting the enemy, gave a gain in time.”

Bauyrzhan was the idol of Ernesto Che Guevara. Comandante Che called him one of the greatest heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and the book “Volokolamsk Highway” - his favorite military book, a textbook from which one should learn courage, perseverance and brilliant command and control. Kazakh Bauyrzhan Momyshuly was invited to Cuba as a personal guest of Defense Minister Raul Castro.
And here is a quote from Beck’s book: “When meeting, he introduced himself. Having trouble hearing, I asked again.

“Bauyrzhan Momysh-Uly,” he repeated separately.

I detected a strange note in his tone, which at that moment seemed like a note of irritation. He must love, I thought, to be understood instantly.
As is the habit of a correspondent, I took out my notebook.

- Excuse me, how do you spell your last name?

He replied:

- I don’t have a last name.
I was amazed. He said that when translated into Russian, Momysh-Uly means son of Momysh.

“This is my middle name,” he continued. - Bauyrzhan is a name. But there is no last name.

The face of Bauyrzhan Momysh-Ula seemed to be carved from bronze or bog oak with some very sharp tool that did not leave a single softly rounded line. It brought back a childhood memory for me. On the hard blue bindings of the collected works of Mine Reid or Fenimore Cooper, the lean face of an Indian was embossed in profile. Bauyrzhan’s profile was similar, it seemed to me, to this relief print.

Dark in Mongolian style, slightly wide-cheeked, often impenetrably calm, especially in moments of anger, it was adorned with unusually large black eyes.
Taking a cigarette and slamming the cigarette case shut with a sharp click, he stubbornly finished:

- If you ever write about me, call me in Kazakh: Bauyrzhan Momysh-Uly.

Let it be known: this is a Kazakh, this is a shepherd driving sheep across the steppe; this is a man who has no last name.”
And this “man without a last name” beat German commanders, many of whom traced their lineage back to the times of the Crusaders. Boasting of “twelve generations of noble ancestors.”

SECOND "COINCIDENCE":

Another excerpt and books “Volokolamsk Highway”:
“On the paper there were three words: “The Germans are in front of us.”
A chill came over me. Is this really our time?
-Have you seen it yourself?
I certainly trusted Rakhimov and still asked.
- Yes.
- Where?
“Twenty to twenty-five kilometers from here: in the village of Sereda and other villages.”

So, not far from the village of Sereda, in the small village of Zhuravlikha, captured by the Germans, my mother was at that moment. Then - a four-year-old girl. Together with my grandparents. Before the war, she was brought to her father's parents so that the little Muscovite could live a little in nature... The German blow was so sudden and swift that they could not take her back. And Kazakh Bauyrzhan Momyshuly came to free her. A great warrior.

Perhaps I exist in the world thanks to him...